Rihanna -- Back on the Market

16. poor riri we all for get she is just a young teenager in love we all make mistales her are just everywhere i hope she has learned her lesson. Chris is no good for her right now he needs help first.

Posted at 10:26AM on Mar 24th 2009 by s

17. I hope they have called it quits. Too much drama. This is nothing but young puppy love. Explore life kids, you can't confine a nineteen year to a serious relationship. Sure they make a cute couple and sell magazines. They need a break from each other. Good Luck Kids.

Posted at 10:31AM on Mar 24th 2009 by KRAZY

18. #17 you r a dumbass i hope you get ur ass kicked sometime soon

Posted at 10:33AM on Mar 24th 2009 by s

19. This is the first time since the assault that I've seen Rihanna's forehead. In prior shots she had her hair swept over her forehead, covering the bruises and swelling that were apparent in the police evidence photos.

It's good to see she is healing.

Stay strong, beautiful Rihanna. This too shall pass. My 9 year old son is one of your biggest fans.

Posted at 10:51AM on Mar 24th 2009 by Carolyn A-B

20. who cares what this loser bitch does she should go hang herself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 11:02AM on Mar 24th 2009 by NEXT!!!!!!!!!!

21. they did not brock-up she is looking for a house for them ( brown aond rinhanna) the thing is they r no longer welcame to any family members or friends house so they gonna get married before the end of the y. and move in .

Posted at 10:33PM on Mar 26th 2009 by aitak

22. TMZ, WHAT ARE YOU... OUTSOURCING YOUR CAMERA DETAIL TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?? DAYUMMMM! HAHAHA.

Posted at 11:24AM on Mar 24th 2009 by 3 hot chics and 1 pimpin gangsta

23. Of course her face looks ODD - SHE IS BLACK!!! And I hope her and Chris are working things out.

Posted at 11:31AM on Mar 24th 2009 by Robin Coderre

24. #18, since when is 21 a young teenager?

Posted at 3:41PM on Mar 24th 2009 by Tracy

25. Who cares???

Posted at 11:37AM on Mar 24th 2009 by AB

26. I hope Rihanna does wake the f*ck up and leave his sorry a$$! It only makes HER look bad to stay with someone who abuses her.

Posted at 11:45AM on Mar 24th 2009 by jeez

27. TMZ, DON'T ACT LIKE YOU CARE FOR RIHANNA WHEN YOU DON'T,
YOU DIDN'T CARE FOR HER WHEN U PUT THAT BRUISE PICTURE UP ON UR SITE ON HER BDAY.
YOU NEVER HAD THAT MUCH INTEREST IN HER OR CHRIS B4 THIS SCANDAL, TO YOU THEY WERE
JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY BORING BLACK COUPLE, NOW BCOZ OF THIS INCIDENT UR ALL UP IN THEIR BUSINESS DAILY, you don't know if they have broken up, it would be wise for them not to been see together right now, due to all what's going on, until all is died down because media will start trouble if they were spotted together and someone would make money from the picture.

Posted at 12:11PM on Mar 24th 2009 by MOVE ON, NOW

28. Look at the haters LOL! Say what you want, but Rihanna is a pretty girl. She is exotic looking and able to change her entire look with just a hairstyle!

And yeah, they have broken up. This is will be HER new home. New hairstyle new home, you get the picture. She's trying to move on with her life and career. I will be pulling for her!

I hope she's not really getting cozy with that dude from the 70s show, but hey, maybe she needs a "bridge" to take her mind off her troubles lol

Posted at 12:30PM on Mar 24th 2009 by Max

29. #15 is a stupid excuse for a human. Your only hating to SOB!!!!! and this is coming from the source you jackass

Posted at 12:41PM on Mar 24th 2009 by RiRi

30. AN ARTICLE JUST FOR THE WONDERFUL STAFF AT TMZ!! ENJOY!!!

Cover Girl or Bad Girl: How the Media Blew the Rihanna Story

The media frenzy that followed Rihanna's assault was predictably crass and damaging to domestic violence victims.
When news broke that 19-year-old R&B artist Chris Brown had been arrested by Los Angeles police Feb. 8 for allegedly attacking a woman in his car, the saga that unfolded was as predictable as a track on Billboard's Top 10.
As speculated, the woman was revealed to be his pop-star girlfriend, Rihanna. On Feb. 19, a photograph of the star's face covered in bruises was leaked and posted on gossip site TMZ.com and then reproduced across the Web. And the media frenzy that followed was predictably crass.

When Jane Velez-Mitchell writes on CNN.com, "Unfortunately, despite her incredible looks and talent, I think she is now the poster child for battered woman's syndrome," she neatly sums up one of the most maddening angles that much of the coverage adopted: Who would expect the poster child of battered women's syndrome to have such "incredible looks?" Domestic abuse, Velez-Mitchell intimates, is one of those hardships visited upon the less shiny.

Not surprisingly, the fact that Rihanna is the pitchwoman for Cover Girl cosmetics has not escaped attention. A segment on NBC's Today Show was introduced thusly: "Young, talented and beautiful pop star Rihanna is at the top of the music charts. The 21-year-old is the face of Cover Girl cosmetics, but this bruised and battered picture of Rihanna has replaced her glamour girl image ..."

The leaked photo presented a perfect contrast to the airbrushed perfection of the star's manufactured image, and the claustrophobic conventions of both Hollywood and mainstream media demanded she be one or the other -- glamour girl or victim -- with no room in between. The difference being, of course, that in order to become a Cover Girl, Rihanna electively signed a contract and received a paycheck.

Tracey Ford, the editor of AOL Music's hip-hop/R&B site, TheBoombox.com, stated in an Associated Press article parsing the effects the incident may have on Brown and Rihanna's careers, "It might actually help Rihanna, to a certain extent. … She's definitely being viewed as the victim at this point."

Unfortunately for Rihanna, there are only a few acceptable ways to be a victim in the public spotlight. When she reconciled with Brown and was confirmed to be vacationing with him in Miami, the media quickly began to wonder if she even deserved the role of Poster Child for Battered Women's Syndrome. So much for the "help."

Interviewed for a USA Today article, Entertainment Weekly music writer Margeaux Watson mused, "She's supposed to be a role model, and that isn't role-model behavior. It goes counter to everything young girls are raised to do and believe. If I'm an executive, I would have to reconsider whether she's the proper spokesperson for my brand."
Washington Post blogger Liz Kelly expressed disappointment that Rihanna had failed to travel the trajectory that she predicted:
Rihanna, the bigger star of the two anyway, was the victim, and conventional wisdom plotted her next moves as: Get help and recover, do the big interview with Oprah or Barbara Walters and, ultimately, become a powerful voice for domestic-abuse awareness. Instead, Rihanna defied logic over the weekend by reuniting with Brown. And no matter how confusing that is for me, I cringe to think of the mixed message it could be sending to other young people in similar circumstances.
It would be a comfort to live in a world where something like "become a powerful voice for domestic-abuse awareness" had a place on bulleted to-do list.

Rihanna's reunion with Brown did not simply mean she had lost sympathy; it opened her up for blame.
"He allegedly bruised and battered her, and yet she took him back," crowed an article on People's Web site. "And now, could she get him off the hook?"

An LA Times entertainment blog sneered, "Rihanna is in Mexico working on … her tan? Wait, how come she's not cooperating with law officials in the recent alleged assault?"

On the CNN show, Showbiz Tonight, host A.J. Hammers reported on a "Rihanna backlash" that entailed fans "clearing their iPods of Rihanna's music, kids ripping her posters off their walls." He wondered incredulously if it was possible she just wasn't aware of her fans' reactions, as if her decision to return to Brown rested solely on a faulty assessment of her public image.
Hammers' guest, Lisa Bloom, a lawyer and television personality, intoned that "She's chosen to be a megastar, so she enjoys all the fame and fortune that comes along with it. Unfortunately, she has not chosen to be a role model for young girls. So she has to accept this backlash," and went on to say that the backlash was proof "… that the women's movement has arrived."
As a young, famous woman celebrated as much for her looks as her singing career, Rihanna occupied a specific place in the public's eye. She carefully straddled a line between being sexy but not too sexy. Her boyfriend, Brown, has been described as "squeaky-clean." They were both nominated for Nickelodeon Kid's Choice awards this year.

The allegations of abuse shattered a comfortable fantasy the public enjoyed about Rihanna's life. Once the perfect image had been sullied, the public hoped she would slip easily into another fantasy: the one where she left Brown and never looked back, spoke out openly against domestic violence and assumed the role of a wounded but prideful figurehead.
When she failed to leap from one pedestal to the other, there was no room in the media to tell a story about domestic abuse that acknowledged the inherent messiness of such a relationship. Rihanna was stupid for taking him back. Rihanna was vacationing in Mexico, when she should have been making tearful appearances on daytime TV shows.
Almost as much as the public likes to be reassured that issues like domestic violence can be solved in hourlong specials, they love to watch a pretty girl fall. Lindsay and Brittney are ample proof of that.

Although Rihanna can't be labeled a substance abuser, or a substance abuser and a bad mother, she committed the same crime: she was a Good Girl, and now she's a Bad Girl. (And certainly not a Cover Girl.) Conveniently, this allows the media to heap any blame for failing to further the dialogue about domestic violence on the victim. She's sending the wrong idea to young girls. She's condoning the behavior of abusive partners.

But Rihanna's treatment at the hands of the press will be far more damaging to domestic-abuse victims than her behavior ever could be. Casting Rihanna as the willing victim and summarily revoking sympathy as a means of punishing her for a perceived complacency sends a clear message that women who are victims of abuse deserve compassion on a conditional basis only.
Victims should speak out, but only if they are ready to leave their partner and, better still, engage in legal retaliation. This of course, ignores the fact that many women suffer the same kind of revictimization in court that Rihanna is currently suffering at the hands of the press.

If victims of domestic violence are taking any message away from this fracas, it's that once other people become aware of your situation, you open yourself up to criticism and contempt.
An editorial in the New York Daily News boasts the headline: "The Beat Goes On: Rihanna can teach valuable lessons to domestic abuse victims." It's right on both counts.

Posted at 12:41PM on Mar 24th 2009 by Max